Freelancer and multiplayer

when using a mod on freelancer to play multiplay on servers i can see the
server list on global or lan but as soon as u try to join it say carnt
connect sever is going off line or there is a prob
things iv done
1 iv turned off vista fire wall and all things that could stop me from
getting online and still no joy.
opened up FLMM using admin & that didnt work
everybody iv spoken to about this all say that vista deosnt support online
gaming
anybody got any thoughts

I am getting the same message form freelancer and i curently have no mod
instaled on freelancer . i go to mp see the servers click to join and i get
the smaem message and i repet this is an unmoded game so its not the mod

"Night Stalker" wrote:

> when using a mod on freelancer to play multiplay on servers i can see the
> server list on global or lan but as soon as u try to join it say carnt
> connect sever is going off line or there is a prob
> things iv done
> 1 iv turned off vista fire wall and all things that could stop me from
> getting online and still no joy.
> opened up FLMM using admin & that didnt work
> everybody iv spoken to about this all say that vista deosnt support online
> gaming
> anybody got any thoughts
>

DirectX 10 which is standard with Vista doesnt support Directplay. Directplay is what makes The multiplayer work. So all old Microsoft games that have multiplayer dont work with Windows Vista. I have the same problem with Freelancer.

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its not the dx 10 we found it. it seams that when you have a antivres on
like nortans, mcafee antivres and a few otheres. someone came across it buy
mistake. he or she uninsrtaled there AV then tryed to conect to MP and fl
conected no problme. reintaled there AV .then they tryed to conect get threw
globel server see server lis try and conect to server and get erro massge.
the server wint off line while you were trying to conect. so i did the same
thing unsitaled my nortans AV. and i can conect.[as a point i dont have
nortas firewall just AV] i renstaled nortans and i get erro message . so i
tryed it on my xp machine have nortans in stalled on it . installed
freelancer and i can conect to mp with nortans on. instaled vista on same
machine. instaled nortans .instaled FL. tryed to conect to mp cant conect .un
isntaled nortans. tryed MP then it would let me connect
so bottom line is something was changed ? when AV are instaled FL WILL
not conect to mp with all fire walls down

"bob" wrote:

> DirectX 10 which is standard with Vista doesnt support Directplay. Directplay is what makes The multiplayer work. So all old Microsoft games that have multiplayer dont work with Windows Vista. I have the same problem with Freelancer.
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>

so if you want to PLAY FL YOU HAVE TO UNINSTALL YOUR ANTIVRES

"MDF Destroyer" wrote:

> its not the dx 10 we found it. it seams that when you have a antivres on
> like nortans, mcafee antivres and a few otheres. someone came across it buy
> mistake. he or she uninsrtaled there AV then tryed to conect to MP and fl
> conected no problme. reintaled there AV .then they tryed to conect get threw
> globel server see server lis try and conect to server and get erro massge.
> the server wint off line while you were trying to conect. so i did the same
> thing unsitaled my nortans AV. and i can conect.[as a point i dont have
> nortas firewall just AV] i renstaled nortans and i get erro message . so i
> tryed it on my xp machine have nortans in stalled on it . installed
> freelancer and i can conect to mp with nortans on. instaled vista on same
> machine. instaled nortans .instaled FL. tryed to conect to mp cant conect .un
> isntaled nortans. tryed MP then it would let me connect
> so bottom line is something was changed ? when AV are instaled FL WILL
> not conect to mp with all fire walls down
>
> "bob" wrote:
>
> > DirectX 10 which is standard with Vista doesnt support Directplay. Directplay is what makes The multiplayer work. So all old Microsoft games that have multiplayer dont work with Windows Vista. I have the same problem with Freelancer.
> >
> > EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> > http://www.eggheadcafe.com
> >

Mine does the same thing. looks like microsoft have forgotten about directplay. maybe a service pack will be released one day that will correct this issue...hopefully. but i still got my other pc so its okay.

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What I want to know is

I have heared thet the global server for freelancer will be shutting down
early 2008. Is this true?
If so when were we going be told about it?

A lot of players still play the freelancer game in multiplay and to shut
down the global server would kill this great game.

If the global server is shutdown how can players access the servers that
have been going for the last 4 years and have established a player based
community. not forgetting all the work put in by the admin teams of these
servers.

I love how Microsoft tech support has done nothing to even acknowledge the
fact that there's a problem with multiplay with this game.

It's like they've entirely disavowed it as a game that was published by
Microsoft.

CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US SOME ANSWERS HERE!?

So do you JUST unistall the AV, does it matter about firewall etc?

"MDF Destroyer" wrote:

> its not the dx 10 we found it. it seams that when you have a antivres on
> like nortans, mcafee antivres and a few otheres. someone came across it buy
> mistake. he or she uninsrtaled there AV then tryed to conect to MP and fl
> conected no problme. reintaled there AV .then they tryed to conect get threw
> globel server see server lis try and conect to server and get erro massge.
> the server wint off line while you were trying to conect. so i did the same
> thing unsitaled my nortans AV. and i can conect.[as a point i dont have
> nortas firewall just AV] i renstaled nortans and i get erro message . so i
> tryed it on my xp machine have nortans in stalled on it . installed
> freelancer and i can conect to mp with nortans on. instaled vista on same
> machine. instaled nortans .instaled FL. tryed to conect to mp cant conect .un
> isntaled nortans. tryed MP then it would let me connect
> so bottom line is something was changed ? when AV are instaled FL WILL
> not conect to mp with all fire walls down
>
> "bob" wrote:
>
> > DirectX 10 which is standard with Vista doesnt support Directplay. Directplay is what makes The multiplayer work. So all old Microsoft games that have multiplayer dont work with Windows Vista. I have the same problem with Freelancer.
> >
> > EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> > http://www.eggheadcafe.com
> >

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Vista has a repaired TCP stack for networking but then they
went and mangled the client/server synchronization settings
inside the client driver, should be corrected maybe in SP1.
Win2k handles it correctly afaik, and so does WinXP if you
start the game executible using 'Win2k comapitibility mode'.
Note..this mostly applies to the mod' servers not the
standard game where a small server patch is available.

NT Canuck
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